Where & When - Some Really Cool Gigs Featuring Mark Zeus and St. John

Issue 50 - May 1, 2024

Hey Folks,

It's springtime and the rotating fan is once again beginning its lazy yawn back and forth intermittently ruffling the pages of the Snap On Tool Calendar by the Miller Time clock in the offices of Work Song Productions up above the taxidermy supply store in beautiful downtown Forest Glen. Murray, our AI powered robotic booking agent has been hard at work hardly working at booking us gigs and fudging the books so we never see a dime of our performance fees. He keeps mumbling something about recoupable expenses and waving his stubby robotic fingers in the air like he finds the question unpleasantly annoying. In other words, he is the same taciturn and curmudgeonly Murray who is as humorless as ever -- or at least since his motherboard was replaced some time ago when he glitched out after hearing he was more machine than sentient. "When were you planning on telling me?" he kept repeating as we powered him down. Below is the result of Murray's long days spent thumbing through a thick 1987 issue of the Chicago white pages and talking on the phone. If you ever receive those odd calls where no one talks and the line goes dead, that's probably him pretending to earn his ten percent.

Sat. May 11, 2024 12:30PM
Chicago Waldorf School May Fair
5200 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago IL 60640

I am happy to report that I will be appearing with The Dorfs, a not-for-profit organization comprised of Chicago Waldorf School dads concerned we are not doing near enough to embarrass our school aged children. To remedy this, we formed a band and will play a set of songs in front of all. of. their. friends. You should be there to see the look on their faces as well as to shop the vendor crafts, eat the food, and taste the homemade baked goods. Bring the kids, there's loads of things for them to do, such as win a cake at the cake walk, or play games. Later, the Ella and Marlon Show will do a rare set as a duo.

Fri. May 24, 2024 8:00PM
Draft Bar
8221 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL 60634

Mark Zeus, a mysterious troubadour who takes shape out of the mist of memory only to dissipate into the ether once he is booked to play elsewhere, will be in town briefly and we will be playing what for us is a new joint, Draft Bar, out west in the Irving Woods neighborhood near Che-Che-Pin-Qua woods so named after Che-Che-Pin-Qua himself who was married to none other than Catherine Chevalier who also has her very own woods named after her and was a daughter of a Potawatomie chief no less. It's out by Indian Boundary Golf Course named after that 35° line that starts off the end of Rogers Beach in Lake Michigan and extends southwesterly down Rogers Avenue and then on down Forest Preserve Drive and then through Indian Boundary Golf Course and then across the State of Illinois to the mouth of the Des Moines River at the intersection of the Mississippi and the borders of Iowa and Missouri. It was the line established in 1816 by the Treaty of St. Louis establishing where settlers were free to settle as long as they did not go north of the line where the Council of The Three Fires, the united tribes of Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, held sway. We all know how well that worked out, so come on out just north of that line and a have a beer or two.

Our second album has been released...

"Come Right In" by The St. John Family Hour is available now over at our Bandcamp site. Get your copy today while virtual supplies last, which Murray tells me is indefinitely. It is soon to be available on iTunes, Spotify, and other stores just as soon as our check clears. You will find it alongside our eponymously titled first album The St. John Family Hour that was released a year ago and is available wherever you download your tunes.

Coming Soon...

Sun. July 7, 2024 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Mark Zeus & Marlon St. John
The Sportz Nook

Well, that's about the jist of it. As you know, you are receiving this because you possess an exclusive membership in a group of music aficianados who are given the skinny on where to find the music that the music industry elites don't want you to know about. We want to thank you for your ongoing support of independent music. If you have read this far you are already doing your part to annoy the number tweezers at Ticketmaster. We will see you Where and When we can.

With warmest regards,

Marlon St. John

Producer | Work Song Productions

T: 312.613.2345

marlon@worksongproductions.com
www.worksongproductions.com

5254 N. Lamon Ave. Chicago, IL 60630

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